Housing Question Old and New: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in
the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today.

Author: Sebastian Kohl (Freie Universität Berlin), Florian Müller (Universität 
        Zürich, Fernuni Schweiz), Ria Wilken (Freie Universität Berlin)
        
Contact: sebastian.kohl@fu-berlin.de; florian.mueller@fernuni.ch;
         ria.wilken@fu-berlin.de
         
Date: 2025/11/05
Version: 1.0
DOI: 
 
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This dataset contains replication material for analyses done in 
"Housing Question Old and New: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation 
in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today". All 
analyses are run in RStudio. This readme briefly describes the content of the
replication material. For detailed information on the sources and variable 
manipulation, we direct readers to our paper and its online appendix.

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## Files in This Deposit

- **final.RData** – main dataset, contains all major variables
- **cities_geocodes.RData** – Data on cities' geographical location, needed 
                              for regression analysis 
- **city_center.xlsx** – Excel Spreadsheet containing information on the 
                         location of each city center, needed to replicate
                         Figure 7
- **historical_city_map_data.Rdata** – Dataset containing historical shape files
                                       of the cities in the sample, needed to 
                                       replicate Figure 7
- **Replication_Code** – Master script to replicate all tables, figures and 
                         analyses for the paper.
- **codebook.pdf** – variable descriptions

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Note: Due to license restrictions, we are not allowed to share the data provided
      by the Innerstädtische Raumbeobachtung (IRB) as well as the RWI-provided rent
      data used in the analysis of contemporary housing circumstances in Germany. 
      The code for replicating this part of the analysis is commented out.
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If you use this dataset, please cite this data publication including the doi and the original article:

Data publication: Kohl, Sebastian, Müller, Florian, Wilken, Ria (2025). Housing Question Old and 
New: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of 
Major European Cities around 1900 and Today. Harvard Dataverse. 
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I9BTGG

Article publication: Kohl, Sebastian, Müller, Florian, Wilken, Ria (2025). Housing Question Old and 
New: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of 
Major European Cities around 1900 and Today. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

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